Quotes from Richard DeVos

You've got to take responsibility for your actions.

When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.

The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.

Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.

Great moments await around every corner.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.

It is fun to be Rich DeVos. It's great fun.

Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.

You have to move in life, but the loyalty you develop in a community is always remembered. But if you leave, you don't pick it up in the next town. It's not an add-on, you know, because you lose what you had.

I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.

I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.

One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.

As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.

I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.